[PLUG] quiet case at Frys

Bill Barry barryb at proaxis.com
Wed Jul 1 18:28:39 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Keith Lofstrom<keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:
> About two months ago, I built a superquiet high-efficiency midtower
> system for my wife to use for speech recognition dictation.  We
> used an Antec Sonata III midtower case, which contains an Antec
> EarthWatt 500W high efficiency supply, big/slow fans, side panels
> with acoustic dampening, vibration-dampening drive straps, etc.
> Quiet enough to hear the CPU fan inside (which we replaced with
> a quieter one).

>  Downsides:  the power light is a bright blinking
> blue circle, distracting at night,

Black duct tape works wonders. Without it I used to wake up in the
middle of the night and think it was dawn.

Bill



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